Practicing Otherwise
A CE-Accredited Learning Community for Mental Health Practitioners and Emerging Practitioners Exploring Critical and Decolonial Practice.
Open to graduate students, trainees, and mental health professionals who are actively engaged in questions of critical, decolonial, and liberatory practice.
The 4C Framework
Capacities for Liberation-Oriented Practice
Critical Consciousness
Developing the ability to recognize how history, power, culture, and ideology shape mental health practice.
Community
Understanding that meaningful transformation requires relationship, accountability, and collective learning.
Civic Action
Exploring what responsibility looks like beyond the therapy room.
Care
Cultivating radical care as an ethical practice rooted in dignity, relationship, and humanity.
These are not topics to complete.
They are capacities to continue developing throughout our professional lives.
How We Work Together
Each session includes:
Arrival & Reflection
Checking in as clinicians and as people.
Theory
Engaging key ideas and frameworks.
Dialogue
Collective exploration, questions, and meaning-making.
Praxis Lab
Applying theory to real clinical cases and dilemmas.
Integration
Identifying one shift to carry into practice.
Who This Is For
This cohort is designed for clinicians who:
Feel professionally isolated in traditional mental health settings
Are interested in critical and decolonial approaches to practice
Want rigorous engagement with theory, not simplified social media versions
Are willing to examine their own assumptions and professional formation
Want a community of clinicians engaged in similar questions
About Dr. Bibi Pirayesh
Dr. Bibi Pirayesh is an educator, clinical practitioner, and faculty member working at the intersection of psychology, learning science, and critical/decolonial pedagogy.
She has over 20 years of experience in clinical practice and teaches graduate and professional learners across higher education. She is the author of Difference Is Not Deficit (Heinemann) and facilitates learning communities focused on translating critical theory into applied practice.
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